But Stan Lee, for one, sees the increase in real-life superheroes as a positive sign.

“I think it’s a good thing that people are eager enough to want to help their community,” he says. “They think to do it is to emulate the superheroes. Now if they had said they had super powers [that would be another thing].”

They don’t have super powers yet, but they do have BattleSuits. And, in the case of Rochester, Minnesota’s Geist, bolas.